In this JSH-Online.com audio podcast, adapted for print, Christian Science practitioner Kurt Stark spoke with Audio Producer Rita Polatin. Kurt dives deep into Mary Baker Eddy’s statement “that man is the image and likeness of God, in whom all being is painless and permanent” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 414). He talks about how each one of us can demonstrate this spiritual fact in our everyday lives.
Rita: In Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy writes, “Keep in mind the verity of being,—that man is the image and likeness of God, in whom all being is painless and permanent” (p. 414). For someone who is hearing this statement for the first time and is feeling pain, it might sound startling. So from your study and practice of Christian Science, can you explain both why this is true and how can we experience this painlessness Mrs. Eddy is talking about?
Kurt: We know there are many people in the world who are desperate and are crying out in words similar to the prophet Jeremiah: “Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed?” (Jeremiah 15:18). When facing physical pain or mental anguish it strengthens our hopes and our convictions to be reassured that there is a God who does hear our call for help. A verse in Psalms, which is a book from the Bible full of comfort for any sufferer, says: “O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me” (30:2). The statement that you read from Science and Health states another biblical truth that bases our health and our freedom from discord and disharmony.
